When you need one
Taken before, not after
Your neighbour is building
A loft, a rear extension, a basement, a chimney breast coming out. Under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 the condition of your property should be recorded before the works start, and the building owner normally pays for it.
Before your own works
If you are the one building, a schedule of the neighbouring property protects you. When a crack is blamed on your builders six months later, you can show it was already there.
Licence to alter
Renovating a flat? The freeholder or managing agent will usually make a Schedule of Condition a condition of consent: the flat below or beside you, plus the common parts your builders will pass through. We record exactly what the licence asks for, so consent is not held up.
Start or end of a tenancy
An independent record of the condition of a house or flat at handover, so deposit and repair questions at the end are settled by the record rather than memory.
Fees
Fixed by the size of the property
No hourly rate, no estimate that grows. Tell us the number of bedrooms and the fee is set. Externals, boundary walls and outbuildings are included as standard, and the fee covers two visits: the record before the works start, and a second inspection after the works are finished if you ask for one.
Flat, or 1 to 2 bed house
Purpose built and converted flats, maisonettes, and smaller houses.
3 to 4 bed house
The typical London terrace or semi. Every room, the roof space, and the external elevations.
5+ bed, basement, or listed
Large houses, basement schemes next door, and listed or period buildings that need more recording.
Both sides of the party wall on the same visit: second property at half fee. Common parts for a licence to alter (lobby, hallway, stairs) are priced alongside the neighbouring flat. The post-works visit is included when requested, so you are not paying again to find out whether anything has changed. Listed buildings with real complexity may need a bespoke figure, and we will tell you before you commit.
How it works
Quote to report in under a week
Quote in minutes
Tell us the property and the number of bedrooms. The fee is fixed by size, so the quote arrives by email straight away.
Inspection before the works start
We inspect within a few working days, normally in around an hour to ninety minutes for a typical house, and photograph as we go.
Report in three working days
A written schedule in item, description and condition format, cross referenced to a dated photographic appendix and signed by an RICS chartered surveyor.
Agreed, filed, and checked after
The schedule is sent to you, and where there is a party wall award it is attached to it and agreed between the surveyors. When the works finish, ask us back and we compare the property against the record, included in the fee.
Been served a party wall notice and want us to act for you as well? See our party wall service. Need one for commercial premises? See commercial Schedules of Condition.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
From £620 · Fixed fee · Two visits · Report in 3 working days
Get the record before the works start
Instant quote by email. No obligation.
View a sample Schedule of Condition
See exactly what you receive. This redacted sample records a two-storey terraced house in East London ahead of party wall works next door: preliminary notes, limitations, an item by item schedule of every affected room and elevation, and a dated photographic appendix. 11 pages.